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''The House of the Dead III'' is a Light Gun Arcade Game with a horror theme, produced by Sega in 2002 and developed by WOW Entertainment . It was subsequently Ported to the Xbox and later for Microsoft Windows in 2005. ''The House of the Dead III'' continues the story of the previous games and introduces new gameplay concepts. In the game, the player controls either Lisa Rogan, daughter of Thomas Rogan, the "player one" of the first game, or G. GAMEPLAY ''House of the Dead III'' departs from the original games in two ways: weaponry and story branching. The former is immediately apparent upon playing the Xbox version. The new shotgun as a weapon no longer requires the traditional "shoot off the screen" reload, but rather reloads automatically. Reloading still takes time, but happens without prompt as soon as the gun needs it. The arcade version differs here, because there is the presence of a Light Gun shotgun on the machines, allowing for similar speedy reloading. A Branching Storyline existed in the previous games, but was handled differently. In ''HODIII'', the player is given options for navigating through the game before some levels, ultimately going through the same areas with different results dependent on order. Another important difference is the absence of civilians. Unlike the first two ''House of the Dead'' games, in which players acted as an armed Search and Rescue party for the various people in peril, ''House of the Dead III'' contains no extra personnel beyond those central to the story. STORY AND CHARACTERS The game is set in the year 2019, nineteen years after '' House Of The Dead 2 ''. Civilization has long since collapsed and Thomas Rogan has disappeared while investigating a suspicious research facility. Lisa, Thomas' daughter, and G travel there with automatic Shotgun s in hand to find him and figure out what is happening.
A key witness to the 1998 Curien Mansion Case, Thomas Rogan had apparently left the AMS as of 2019. For the last sixteen years, Rogan was investigating the cause of the collapse of the world. After receiving disturbing reports that the EFI research facility was behind the world collapse, Rogan headed for the facility with a team of elite commandos in tow. Ultimately, Rogan was rescued by his daughter.
An elite commando who was part of the team assembled by Thomas Rogan to investigate a research facility located in a desolate wasteland. The facility had been linked to the global collapse and to Dr. Curien in some way. By the beginning of the game, Dan was Rogan's only surviving commando, the others having fallen to the rampaging zombie hordes.
Like his comrade, Thomas Rogan, G has also left the AMS. He helped Lisa in the search for her father.
The daughter of former AMS Thomas Rogan and former DBR scientist Sophie Richards. Living in the shadow of her well-known father, Lisa was often the subject of comparisons between her father and herself. She barely had any memories with her father, who often placed greater priority with his work. Nineteen years old by 2019, Lisa commenced a search for her father with G two weeks after contact with her father was lost. After fighting past a host of undead within the EFI research facility located in a wasteland, Lisa managed to rescue her father and destroy the final legacy of the infamous Dr. Curien.
Formerly a celebrated scientist, Dr. Roy Curien has become notorious for his role as creator of the undead. What most people did not know was Dr. Curien's ulterior motives. Several years before the Curien Mansion Case, Daniel, the son of Dr. Curien, suffered a seemingly terminal disease that left him comatose. Dr. Curien himself decided to find the cure to his son's illness, leading to his research into the nature of life and death. In his efforts to save his son, Dr. Curien lost his own soul, leaving him disillusioned and insane. Although Dr. Curien died at the conclusion of the Curien Mansion Case, the results of his research have continued to wreak havoc on the world for years.
The son of Dr. Roy Curien, Daniel suffered a seemingly terminal disease that left him comatose for years. By 2019, he seems to have been cured of his illness. He also helps Lisa destroy the monster that was once his father, as a sign that he is ready to face the future no matter what happens.
In one of the endings of this game, a mysterious man picks up a canister from the floor of the chamber where the final battle took place. According to the memories of Dr. Curien, the canister supposedly contains the genes necessary for the animation of undead. The mystery man says, "It would seem that he failed to understand its true purpose." Although his back is towards the game screen, those who look carefully will notice that he is limping on his right leg and may be wearing a business suit. Enemies
A giant zombie wearing a security guard's uniform and carrying a skull-studded club. Death proved to be quite tenacious, having chased Lisa and G throughout the research facility before being stopped in the facility's information systems department.
An experiment combining humans, animals and plants in the facility's biology laboratories, The Sun was a grotesque tree-like plant with a ring of undead skulls lining its trunk. It had four large flower-like pods (each of which opened to reveal a monstrous head) and several vines ending in claw-like appendages (which were used to reach other sections of the biology laboratories via the ventilation system). Lisa and G exterminated this plant in their exploration of the facility.
The Fool resembled a giant sloth with a zombie-like face and large claws on it hands and feet. This creature was a quick wall-climber, having adapted to the confines of its tower-like cage within the research facility, and utilized the corpses of victims thrown into its feeding ground as means of assault. The Fool was killed by Lisa and G, falling into the darkest depths of its prison.
The final legacy of Dr. Roy Curien, this experiment began at around the same time as the Magician project in House of the Dead 1. The genes of The Magician and The Wheel of Fate, according to Curien, would change the future. After Dr. Curien was killed, agents of the DBR Corporation took the scientist's body to the EFI research facility in the middle of a desolate wasteland. There, his body would undergo a resurrection that would take nineteen years before it would be complete. Once The Wheel of Fate's programming was hacked, Curien was freed, hardly recognizable from his human self, having become a humanoid of silvery chrome, telekinetically controlling a large ring of metal. He had the ability to emit electricity and levitate at high speed. The doctor was finally put to rest by Lisa Rogan and his own son, Daniel Curien. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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